{"product_id":"the-martial-arts-of-renaissance-europe","title":"The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe","description":"\u003cp\u003eMounted encounters by armored knights locked in desperate hand-to-hand combat  stabbing and wrestling in tavern brawls  deceits and brutalities in street affrays  balletic homicide on the dueling fieldthese were the martial arts of Renaissance Europe. In this extensively illustrated book Sydney Anglo  a leading historian of the Renaissance and its symbolism  provides the first complete study of the martial arts from the late fifteenth to the late seventeenth century. He explains the significance of martial arts in Renaissance education and everyday life and offers a full account of the social implications of one-to-one combat training.  Like the martial arts of Eastern societies  ritualized combat in the West was linked to contemporary social and scientific concerns  Anglo shows. During the Renaissance  physical exercise was regarded as central to the education of knights and gentlemen. Soldiers wielded a variety of weapons on the battlefield  and it was normal for civilians to carry swords and know how to use them. In schools across the continent  professional masters-of-arms taught the skills necessary to survive in a society where violence was endemic and life cheap. Anglo draws on a wealth of evidencefrom detailed treatises and sketches by jobbing artists to magnificent images by Drer and Cranach and descriptions of real combat  weapons and armorto reconstruct and illustrate the arts taught by these ancient masters-at-arms.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946208948277,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300083521","price":37.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300083521.jpg?v=1769929400","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-martial-arts-of-renaissance-europe","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}